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Five bucks buys you 48 hours to watch at home a film currently in theaters, in a rejection of conventional studio marketing wisdom.
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What is the point? If a company can suck money from the movie studios more power to them. But come on? Do you really think you can control informed consumers with an iron hand?
All I can say is this is one consumer that will look for alternatives that meet my freedom.
Bye.
I recently purcahased a 50 pack spindel of DVD-R's for under $50. At a $5 retail price for a 48 hour movie, that makes it $6 for me to make a potentially legal home-use copy. 50 movie copies at $300 sounds a lot better than $900 for "originals".
What is the point? If a company can suck money from the movie studios more power to them. But come on? Do you really think you can control informed consumers with an iron hand?
All I can say is this is one consumer that will look for alternatives that meet my freedom.
Bye.
I recently purcahased a 50 pack spindel of DVD-R's for under $50. At a $5 retail price for a 48 hour movie, that makes it $6 for me to make a potentially legal home-use copy. 50 movie copies at $300 sounds a lot better than $900 for "originals".
sold for $10-$12 and get a much larger number of sales.
If the movie isn't worthwhile, no sales either way.
I'll bet the DVD costs would be less too. If profit is the motive,
fast corrosion DVD's aren't like to be the answer.
LIke the above comments, wasn't one DIVX example enough???
Circuit City lost their shirt on that one.
sold for $10-$12 and get a much larger number of sales.
If the movie isn't worthwhile, no sales either way.
I'll bet the DVD costs would be less too. If profit is the motive,
fast corrosion DVD's aren't like to be the answer.
LIke the above comments, wasn't one DIVX example enough???
Circuit City lost their shirt on that one.
I personally think that Initial New Release movies will make more money for studios on the Internet then in theaters. The movie theater experience will evolve into a "destination" experience, maybe with dinner, drinks, tables and cubicles instead of row seating. (It is already being tested in New York and elsewhere).
I certainly hope that cable companies don't get "first shot" at New Movies; with their overpricing for Pay-Per-view and even standard cable, cable is still a monopolistic sponge soaking up unearned, maybe even illegal, dollars.
What that might do for the movie industry? Well, with lower costs for distribution they might invest in more and better movies, because a minimum audience of say ten million at six dollars each would cover the cost of 90 percent of all movies released. Those are good numbers!
This concept is evolving in music (IPod, Sirius radio) and it is just a matter of time.
I do wonder if the studios will be able to resist the siren call of commercials, however.
Ya think?
Barry Dennis
Netweb/Omni, LLC
I personally think that Initial New Release movies will make more money for studios on the Internet then in theaters. The movie theater experience will evolve into a "destination" experience, maybe with dinner, drinks, tables and cubicles instead of row seating. (It is already being tested in New York and elsewhere).
I certainly hope that cable companies don't get "first shot" at New Movies; with their overpricing for Pay-Per-view and even standard cable, cable is still a monopolistic sponge soaking up unearned, maybe even illegal, dollars.
What that might do for the movie industry? Well, with lower costs for distribution they might invest in more and better movies, because a minimum audience of say ten million at six dollars each would cover the cost of 90 percent of all movies released. Those are good numbers!
This concept is evolving in music (IPod, Sirius radio) and it is just a matter of time.
I do wonder if the studios will be able to resist the siren call of commercials, however.
Ya think?
Barry Dennis
Netweb/Omni, LLC
Deliver your content over the web. Let viewers create their
own discs on re-writable media. Or, simply watch the film on
their computer.
I guess they can start a pile next to the AOL CDs in the landfill
Deliver your content over the web. Let viewers create their
own discs on re-writable media. Or, simply watch the film on
their computer.
I guess they can start a pile next to the AOL CDs in the landfill
More PRO-DRM articles from c|net! Yipee! Their really ramping up lately...
More PRO-DRM articles from c|net! Yipee! Their really ramping up lately...
My 2 cents
My 2 cents
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by boomslang
October 21, 2004 7:30 PM PDT
- and don't give me any male bovine waste about the recycleability of these things. I have a difficult enough time recycling plastics right now. With petroleum hitting $55+ a barrel, this is a really sane and brilliant use for this non-replaceable resource.
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by Jesica Alba
July 11, 2007 4:16 AM PDT
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